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A marauding beaver has plunged several small towns into an internet blackout in northern BC, Canada, after chewing through the base of an aspen tree.

Science & Energy

Mass Canadian Internet Outage Caused by Single Destructive Beaver

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have destroyed the previous data transmission record by achieving a speed of 1.84 petabits per second using only a single light source.

Science & Energy

Scientists Managed to Transmit as Much Data as the Entire Internet’s Bandwidth

By Frank Landymore

Building fiber optic cables with a hollow, air-filled core could finally address an issue that's plagued the tech for 50 years.

Science & Energy

We Can Improve Fiber Optics by Filling Them With Air

By Dan Robitzski

The SD card survived the implosion of the OceanGate submersible which went missing while diving to the Titanic shipwreck.

Advanced Transport

Titanic Sub Investigators Find Camera With Intact SD Card Amid Crumpled Wreckage

By Frank Landymore

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been stuck on board the ISS or months now. They've since taken up gardening.

Stranded Astronauts Have Taken Up Gardening, NASA Says

By Victor Tangermann

Boeing is still desperately trying to figure out what went wrong with its Starliner spacecraft, which is stuck at the ISS.

Boeing Desperately Trying to Figure Out Thruster Issue That’s Stranded Astronauts in Space All Summer

By Victor Tangermann

In China, scientists are developing technology that uses lasers to propel submarines nearly as fast as a jet engine.

Advanced Transport

China Working on Super-Fast Submarines Powered by Lasers

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have developed a new gene therapy that can reverse vision loss in primates, potentially laying the groundwork for human treatment.

Gene Therapy Gives Primates Young Eyes Again

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists Create Flexible Ice That Can Bend Like a Wire

Scientists Create Flexible Ice That Can Bend Like a Wire

By Tony Ho Tran

A team of scientists at Cornell University has created a stretchable fiber-optic sensor that could give robots and virtual reality a "human touch."

Virtual Reality

Will This Glove Finally Let You Touch Stuff in VR?

By Victor Tangermann

Doctors managed to "delete" opioid addictions from the brains of lab mice by shining an implanted fiber optic light that prevented withdrawal.

Scientists Hack Mouse Brains to “Erase” Opioid Addiction

By Dan Robitzski

Russia's intelligence agency reportedly sent agents to insepct undersea internet cables around Dublin, a major tech hub, causing fears over wiretapping.

Science & Energy

Russian Intelligence Is Snooping Around Undersea Internet Cables

By Dan Robitzski

Last week, scientists achieved "first light" with the Mayall Telescope's Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. It could teach us about dark energy.

Scientists Boot Up New Device to Map the Universe’s Dark Energy

By Victor Tangermann

The Boknis Eck Observatory, an underwater research facility that monitored environmental conditions off the coast of Germany, has vanished without a trace.

Science & Energy

An Underwater Research Station Has Vanished Without a Trace

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, scientists generated entangled radiation using a mechanical object. They're describing it as the first step toward a quantum internet.

Scientists: Entangled Radiation May Help Build “Quantum Internet”

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists at Scripps Research say they've found a way to reverse rats' alcoholism by blasting particular neurons in their brains with lasers.

Scientists Reversed Rats’ Alcoholism by Firing Lasers at Their Brains

By Jon Christian

How Killer Robots Will Know They’ve Been Blasted With a Shotgun

How Killer Robots Will Know They’ve Been Blasted With a Shotgun

By Dan Robitzski

Goodyear unveiled a concept tire that rotates to give lift to a flying car at the 2019 Geneva International Motor Show on Tuesday.

Advanced Transport

Goodyear’s New Concept Tire Doubles as a Flying Car Propeller

By Kristin Houser

Startup Space Tango has unveiled an autonomous orbital facility powered by robots that could be the future of space manufacturing.

Startup Unveils Plan for Autonomous Bots to Build Products in Space

By Kristin Houser

Two companies are ready to try manufacturing optical fibers aboard the International Space Station to improve their quality.

Two Companies Are Going to Manufacture Optical Fibers in Space

By Kristin Houser

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AI Is Slitting the Throat of the Journalism Industry

AI Is Slitting the Throat of the Journalism Industry

By Victor Tangermann

Despite broadcasting a barrage of lies with its faulty AI summaries feature, Apple has yet to meaningfully address the problem.

Apple’s AI Is Constantly Butchering Huge News Stories Sent to Millions of Users

By Victor Tangermann

Tech startup Channel 1 released a 20 minute demo of its news channel presented by uncanny AI news anchors.

Channel 1 Says It’ll Use AI-Generated News Anchors

By Frank Landymore

Readers Want Publications to Label AI-Generated Content

Readers Want Publications to Label AI-Generated Content

By Sharon Adarlo